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COATES v. KRAFT FOODS, INC.

263 A.D.2d 734 (1999)

693 N.Y.S.2d 711

CLARENCE COATES et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. KRAFT FOODS, INC., Also Known as KRAFT GENERAL FOODS, et al., Respondents-Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided July 15, 1999.

Carpinello, J.

On March 6, 1996, plaintiff Clarence Coates (hereinafter plaintiff) was a contract employee hired to shuttle trailers in the yard of defendants' St. Lawrence County facility. This job entailed connecting trailers to a tractor and moving the trailers to loading docks. Some of the trailers were equipped with refrigeration units, known as reefers. If a particular reefer was not working because of low fuel or a dead battery, plaintiff would try to solve...

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